<p class="MsoNormal">A waiter is kept busy serving just some of the many tourists who flock to Ischia for its beaches, robust Southern Italian cuisine, and year-round thermal spas. The tourist boom, author Lorenzo Carcaterra writes, only started in the 1960s, after Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton conducted a scandalous, paparazzi-hounded affair while on the island filming <i>Cleopatra.</i><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Read "Island of Memories" in the September 2010 issue of <i>National Geographic Traveler.</i></p>
Seaside Waiter
A waiter is kept busy serving just some of the many tourists who flock to Ischia for its beaches, robust Southern Italian cuisine, and year-round thermal spas. The tourist boom, author Lorenzo Carcaterra writes, only started in the 1960s, after Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton conducted a scandalous, paparazzi-hounded affair while on the island filming Cleopatra.
Read "Island of Memories" in the September 2010 issue of National Geographic Traveler.
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Ischia
This resort island off the southwest coast of Italy offers a scenic Mediterranean getaway.
